Records 1848-1849

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Records 1848-1849

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Types of records are correspondence, receipts, military orders, transcripts, vouchers, contracts, certificates, and translations, dating from 1848 to 1849. Documents are records from George T. Wood's term as governor of Texas.

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Texas. Office of the Governor

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During the 1950s Governor Price Daniel popularized a tradition of Texas governors honoring citizens of Texas by proclaiming them “Admirals in the Texas Navy.” Citizens receive their honorary title for a number of reasons such as special achievement in government service or athletics. The criteria and the selection is at the discretion of the governor. Many citizens are nominated by their state legislators. Native-born Texans are designated as “admirals;” non-native Texans are “honorary admirals....

Texas. Governor (1847-1849 : Wood)

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George T. (Tyler or Thomas) Wood, governor of the state of Texas, held office from December 21, 1847 to December 21, 1849. Born in Georgia on March 12, 1795, Wood was a veteran of the Battle of Horseshoe Bend at nineteen and served in the Georgia state assembly. In 1839, he brought his family and 30 slaves to Texas where he settled a plantation along the Trinity River. Wood served in the Sixth Congress (1841) and the Annexation Convention of 1845. He resigned his seat in the state senate to beco...

Wood, George T., 1795-1858

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